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Probiotics Are Good for More Than Your Gut The study involved older adults with mild cognitive impairment, where memory and other thinking skills are starting to slide but people can still carry out their daily tasks. Researchers found that when those individuals took a particular probiotic for ...
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Multiple Studies Reinforce Biktarvy as Treatment for Diverse Range of Patients With HIV Bictegravir 50 mg/emtricitabine 200 mg/tenofovir alafenamide 25 mg tablets (Biktarvy; B/F/TAF) allowed pregnant women with HIV type 1 (HIV-1) to maintain virologic suppression at delivery, according to a Gilead press release announcing recent data ...
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Hot, Polluted Days May Double Heart Attack Risk By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, July 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The extreme heat and choking wildfire smoke blanketing wide swaths of the United States this summer are actively dangerous to heart health, ...
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Study on Type 2 Diabetes and Weight Loss Finds Intermittent Fasting Beats Cutting Calories Maintaining a healthy weight is critical for helping those with diabetes manage blood sugar levels. New research indicates that time-restricted eating is more effective for weight loss than counting calories. Simplicity and impacts on hormones are two ...
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Five hospitalized, three dead in Washington listeria outbreak Three of the five individuals have died. Listeriosis is a deadly disease caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most people become infected by eating food contaminated ...
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Young men making quartz countertops are facing lung damage. One state is taking action That's because more and more countertop workers, almost all Latino men, are coming down with an irreversible lung disease after breathing in dangerous dust while cutting and grinding quartz and other stone materials. At least ten ...
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Maternal Hepatitis C During Pregnancy Increases Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes The study authors said that further investigation is needed to explore specialized care for mothers and newborns who are affected. Hepatitis C virus model, 3D illustration. A virus consists ...
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1 in 6 Kids Haven't Gotten All of Their Vaccines. Why? By Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, July 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Most early childhood vaccines require three or four doses for best protection, but more than 1 in 6 toddlers aren't getting them all, leaving them vulnerable to ...
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Imaging Technology May Make Radiation Safer for Prostate Cancer Patients The technology enables clinicians to accurately aim the radiation beams at the prostate, while avoiding bladder, urethra and rectal tissue. This, in turn, reduces short-term side effects for patients, according to researchers who analyzed 29 published ...
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Exercise, Training May Improve Global Cognition in Older Patients With Mild Dementia Progressive aerobic-resistance exercises and sequential cognitive training as a multidomain intervention may significantly improve cognitive impairment in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to the results of a study published ...
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A new study finds a strong link between depression and dementia It is not yet clear if treating depression lessens dementia risk, researchers said. Milko/E+/Getty Images. CNN —.
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Study: Watching TV as a Child Linked to Adult Health Problems Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions including high blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat, and abnormal cholesterol levels that lead to an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, the news release said.
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Kids Who Plant Themselves in Front of TV More Likely to Have Metabolic Syndrome as Adults By Sarah D. Collins HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, July 24, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Here's another reason to get your kids up and moving: Excessive TV watching in childhood leads to a higher risk of metabolic syndrome at age 45, ...
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Adults with HIV can lower risk for cardiovascular disease with daily statin, study finds The REPRIEVE trial compared cardiovascular events among thousands of people with HIV who took either pitavastatin calcium or a placebo every day. Results were published Sunday in The New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the biennial conference ...
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Olive Oil a Powerful Prescription Against Dementia By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, July 24, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- People looking to stay mentally sharp as they age might want to swap out margarine for olive oil, a preliminary study suggests. The study, of more than 90,000 U.S. ...
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Aging Mother Orcas Keep Their Sons Out of Fights July 24, 2023 12:28 p.m.. Post reproductive mother orca behind her adult son An orca mother travels alongside her son. Older orca females past their ...
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Proteins Predict Dementia; Brain Function in Long COVID; Pregabalin Plus Opioids — News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience ; Plasma analysis in middle-age adults identified protein markers of dementia ; A muscle-building supplement known as beta-hydroxy beta-methylbutyrate (HMB) improved spatial learning and ...
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Arthritis and Long COVID: A Double Whammy "Long COVID" lays a particularly heavy burden on people with pre-existing arthritis, a Canadian survey study indicated. Worsened pain and greater functional limitations relative to their status prior to COVID-19 infection were reported by most ...
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Excess heart attack mortality occurs during heat waves, days of poor air quality in China The odds of MI death during heat wave exposure increased up to 74%. Researchers in China estimated that nearly 3% of all MI deaths in Jiangsu province during a 5-year period could be ...
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Risk of fatal heart attack may double in extreme heat with air pollution, study finds The findings? Days of extreme heat, extreme cold or high levels of fine particulate matter air pollution were all "significantly associated" with the risk of death from a heart attack — and the greatest risk was seen on days with a combination of both ...
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Patients With COPD, Severe Pain at an Increased Risk of Falling Patients with both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and severe pain are at an almost 40% predicted probability of falling, indicating the potential interaction between the conditions. Advertisement.
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Dr. Roach: What does a low-fat, low-carb diet consist of? I asked for more specific diet suggestions, as I admit I am nutritionally ignorant (my late wife always bought groceries and prepared meals for us). Other than beef and bread, I'm not even sure what a carbohydrate is.
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Atlas Resource Aims to Support Custom Kidney Disease Treatment Researchers constructed the Kidney Tissue Atlas by analyzing over 400,000 cells and nuclei from healthy and unhealthy kidneys. This tool uses maps of 51 main kidney cell types, encompassing rare and newer ones. It also consists of ...
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Sask. reaches grim milestone of 2000 total COVID-19 deaths The provincial government recently released the latest community respiratory illness surveillance program situation report, which follows COVID-19 and other diseases throughout Saskatchewan. Five more people died from COVID-19 from June 18 to July ...
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Male fertility crisis: what environmental contaminants have got to do with it The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently reported that around one in six couples globally are affected by infertility. For many years people tended to blame women for a couple's infertility – especially in African countries.
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Youth in food-insecure homes made more visits to doctors for mental health: study The mere thought of grocery shopping causes so much anxiety for Jaimee Aragones that she avoids entering stores knowing she would return home without some food she can no longer afford for her kids. Aragones said her husband has increasingly taken on ...
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Study: 17% of toddlers don't finish all vaccine series they started Researchers analyzed data from the 2019 National Immunization Survey-Child on a nationally representative sample of just over 16,000 children ages 19-35 months. They looked at seven multidose vaccines given to young children — four doses ...
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Running could potentially reduce risk of Parkinson's disease, study finds A new study reveals the impact of running can extend beyond the body and could help prevent Parkinson's disease, a neurological condition that affects balance and coordination and can cause involuntary movements like stiffness and shaking.
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Addressing increases in syphilis in Houston and Harris County Overall, the number of new infections increased 57 percent between 2019 and 2022. But it's worse among women. Reported cases of women with the sexually transmitted disease have more than doubled in that time. And congenital ...
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Microbiome Could Be Key in Preventing HIV Progression The animal study, which was performed with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), demonstrated that tackling only systemic immune activation and inflammation when attempting to control disease progression and comorbidities isn't effective. Instead, ...
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Challenges to delivering evidence-based management for long COVID Most trials recruited patients with persistent symptoms after a specific time range (usually 3 or more months since acute infection) and focused on fatigue, asthenia and respiratory symptoms. Most frequently reported outcomes included symptom improvement ( ...
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Running could potentially reduce risk of Parkinson's disease, study finds BDNF can also reduce the spread of pathogens linked to Parkinson's disease. "We have discovered a never observed mechanism, through which exercise performed in the early stages of the disease induces beneficial effects on movement control ...
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As Alzheimer's drugs hit the market, the race for early detection blood tests heats up With the advent of disease-modifying Alzheimer's drugs, everyone in the world of Alzheimer's diagnostics is bracing for the crush. Based on their ability to slow cognitive decline, the Eisai/Biogen drug Leqembi won full approval from the FDA this month ...
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Characterizing the concentration and binding affinity of WT–induced antibodies against the Omicron subvariant BA.1 Several SARS-CoV-2 variants have emerged due to genomic mutations of the ancestral or wild-type (WT) SARS-CoV-2 strain. Among these variants, those classified as variants of concern (VOCs) pose a greater challenge to vaccine- and/or infection-induced long- ...
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Psilocybin for the treatment of anorexia nervosa Psychedelics have recently been re-evaluated as potential tools for the treatment of psychiatric disorders, including internalizing disorders that often co-occur with AN — such as major depression and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) — with promising ...
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1st West Nile virus case in Colorado confirmed for 2023 LA PLATA COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) - A person in La Plata County has been confirmed to have the West Nile virus, Colorado's health department said Monday, marking the first confirmed human case in the state this year. Additionally, the virus has been ...
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The relationships between risk factors and kidney events in two diabetic cohorts The risk evaluation of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients is crucial for appropriate treatment. The association rule, which is a transparent machine learning approach, aims to share information about CKD risks among diabetic patients; however, ...
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Why heart trouble can lead to sleep trouble An immune response triggered by cardiac disease affects the function of a gland with a key role in the sleep–wake cycle.
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Improving health outcomes for people living with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (long COVID) Infectious diseases expert Professor Gail Matthews was on the front line in hospitals when long COVID emerged. Gail started researching this new condition. She became a leading Australian expert on long COVID. But progress was difficult.
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Omega-3s May Keep Your Hearing Sharp By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, July 24, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- More omega-3 fatty acids in your diet might prevent hearing loss as you age, researchers report. Low levels of the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid ...
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Patterns in the Development of Pediatric Allergy Children with atopic dermatitis (AD), immunoglobulin E–mediated food allergy (IgE-FA), asthma, allergic rhinitis (AR), and eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) were identified using a combination of diagnosis codes and medication prescriptions. We determined age ...
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Silence of the cats: Should we worry about deadly bird flu outbreaks in mammals? Outbreaks of H5N1 influenza among cats and farmed mink are stoking fears about a human pandemic. But scientists increasingly understand what a pandemic flu virus might look like, aiding efforts to keep us safe.
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What We're Getting Wrong About Ozempic Ozempic has gained popularity as the new "miracle" diet drug that celebrities are using for weight loss. But has the mania over Ozempic obscured its original purpose as a diabetes treatment? A new day, another set of Ozempic headlines.
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Risk of fatal heart attack may double in heat wave and high fine particulate pollution days Summary: An analysis of more than 202,000 heart attack deaths between 2015-2020 in a single Chinese province found that days that had extreme heat, extreme cold or high levels of fine particulate matter (PM2 ...
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VIDEO: AI can be used to quantify coronary artery calcium on unrelated CT scans Rodriguez, associate professor in cardiovascular medicine at Stanford University, gave a presentation on that topic at the American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention. Rodriguez said her team found that when a CT scan ...
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Anti-inflammatory nanoparticles show promise in treating inflammatory bowel disease Chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, is on the rise worldwide. The benefits of current medications are limited by problematic side effects. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a South Korean research ...
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Exercise, metabolism: Cellular mechanisms by which lactate helps our brains develop Scientists at Tohoku University have discovered the critical role that lactate plays in helping neural stem cells develop into specialized neurons, a process dubbed neuronal differentiation. They also unearthed a means by which lactate sends signals to the ...
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Influenza B is back and more children are ending up in hospital Influenza B strain has sparked a spike in infections and rising hospitalisations among Australian children. · In June, 200 children infected with the flu were admitted to hospital at Monash Health, eight requiring intensive care.
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Western NB sees rash of rabies cases A picture of a raccoon in Fish Creek, Calgary. Rabies has been detected in eight raccoons in western New Brunswick since November 2022. (Calgary Parks).
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Study: Risk of deadly heart attack increases with extreme heat exposure, pollution A study found that the risk of a deadly heart attack may double when people are exposed to extreme temperatures and high levels of particle pollution. ... The study published in the journal Circulation looked at more than 202,000 heart attack deaths between ...
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